17 Murphy
There are still two hours before the time for the people of the Southern District to wash and sleep. In the master bedroom on the second floor of Grande, Murphy sits at Louise's dresser, holding the book "Cain of God's Punishment" in his hand.
"I thought you were some kind of upper-class daughter, you would know that it is uneducated to casually go into other people's rooms and look at other people's things. Louise stood inside the door, leaning against the frame, looking at the woman who occupied her dresser.
Can Louise be blamed for being sarcastic in her first remarks to Murphy after returning to Grande? Louise tried to be that generous person, but Murphy didn't know how to stop.
Murphy raised his eyes and saw the image of Louise in the mirror, of course, only Louise, she herself did not exist, "Yes." She didn't close the book in her hand, nor did she mean to leave the master bedroom, and continued to sit there, speaking into Louise's mirror, "I am the daughter of the upper class of the Union in that era, and that is why Zachary and I completed their marriage. "Look, I don't know how to do it, and further," but whether I have an upbringing or not is definitely not the reason why Zachary wants me to join him and become immortal. I have been immortal for a long time now, far more than I am as a human being, and upbringing is not a quality I care about. Murphy withdrew his gaze, "Sarcasm, useless to me. ”
Louise's cheeks twitched, why Zach had wanted Murphy to be immortal?
Louise stared at Murphy's back for a long time, then spoke again, "What the hell do you want?" ”
"Your question is too unspecific for me to answer you. Murphy replied calmly, turning the page by the way.
"There's no way you and Zach are going to get back together. Louise clasped her arms and said with firmness in her tone, "I won't allow this to happen." ”
"Ignorance. Murphy, uh, responded like this, "Ignorance blinded by emotion." Murphy looked at Louise in his glasses again, "I don't want to get back together with him, I've made it clear." ”
"What are you here for?" Louise frowned, "what do you want to achieve?"
"I don't have to answer that kind of question. Murphy withdrew his gaze.
"Tsk. Louise left the door, just walking back and forth in the hallway. She needed some time to calm down. Back in place, "Do you still love Zack?"
"Nope. "Super crisp.
"Hate him?" Louise asked, looking a little better.
"Nope. "Same crisp.
Louise's face was ugly again, "What do you mean? you keep emphasizing your marital relationship, and you keep stimulating our emotions so that we can't have a good conversation with you." You don't love, you don't hate, what do you want?"
Murphy closed the book in his hand, and this time he didn't look at Louise in the mirror, but turned around in his seat and looked at Louise at the door, "My marriage relationship with Zachary is a fact, and at the same time, I didn't stimulate your emotions, I didn't have emotions, all the emotions you feel are your wishful thinking." Your question was wrong from the beginning, I'm Assammet, I don't have a ......"
"How did you become Assammet?" not Louise, it was James.
James had just gone up to the second floor and interjected the conversation without any permission.
Let me explain. James came from Benjamin's warehouse.
Based on the fact that Benjamin was employed, Benjamin returned to Grande at the time of the occupation and was going to live here. So as soon as he arrived at Grande, he went back to the warehouse that belonged to him and sorted out his living environment.
Zach is helping Benjamin clean up the warehouse, not that Zach wants to help us all know that the atmosphere between Zack and Benjamin is not very right. But Zach didn't want to get close to Murphy, and watching Benjamin make his bed in the warehouse was just a way for Zach to escape.
James was also in the warehouse, throwing 100,000 questions at Zack, 'Who is she?' 'Wife?' What do you mean. ''Is there a secret alliance of foreign races in the middle?''......
Zach ...... one by one Refuse to answer. So, James ran over and asked.
Murphy looked at James trotting over, "Silent human driver." "Sorry, explain. This is Murphy's perception of James's identity back on Grand Road, or James's car, and James wonderfully kept quiet the whole time.
"James Lance. James introduced himself, hesitated, didn't stretch out his right hand, but looked at Louise, "I'm a police detective, so, answer my question!"
"I'm not breaking the law, and I don't need to answer your questions. Murphy turned his gaze away from James and turned back to pick up the book he had just closed......
"What's your ** name?" James inexplicably pressed Louise's shoulder, stood in front of Louise, and spoke to Murphy who turned around, his tone was interrogation, "I don't think it's Murphy Moreatti, or Murphy Torredo, hmph, it's not Murphy Asammet." Do you want me to investigate and let you know how to enter a city where people of Indoan descent are mayors? I'm sure I'm going to find something special, so I suggest you cooperate with me and answer questions. ”
Murphy turned back to James and looked at James with no expression, "Human detective, you're threatening me." That's a statement.
"I'm here. James also looked at Murphy, his expression was very clear, and he looked at him, "What can you do? eliminate the threat?" glanced at Louise, and said to Murphy, "She is a descendant of Zac, the third generation of Toredo, you are ......" and so on.
Added is Louise, "Six generations of Asammet." This seems to be the first time that these two people who have met Zach at the same time have been working together for the first time after Louise shot and saved James, "Even if she has the blood of the twin Seth and can forcibly cross the ranks to become the fifth generation of Asammet, she is still suppressed by me." ”
James nodded, looking back at Murphy, "Then I guess I don't have anything to worry about, do I?" ”
Murphy was silent for a moment, just a moment, "It's the second year I've moved out of Moriati Manor and back to my human parents' house. "Still calm," an Asammet, the 'father' of my immortal life, approached me with an offer to let me join the Twin Clans. ”
Louise interjected, not because she thought, but because she heard something unreasonable, "Offer? You weren't forced to be a vampire? Is this an offer?"
Murphy looked at Louise, "That's the problem, that's what I said, didn't I?" ”
Louise's eyes appeared, she glanced at James, and explained to James that she didn't want to communicate directly with Murphy, "Zach said that the reason why their marriage went bad was because Zach proposed immortality to him, and she didn't agree, and the two of them have been torturing each other ever since, and she killed Zack in various ways, and Zach fought back in various ways. Their marriage ...... "Louise pouted," was very painful and unbearable, and then Zach gave up, disappeared, and started a new identity. ”
James's expression could be seen changing as he listened to these words, but he knew that it was not time to question how Zach could fight back against an ordinary human woman...... James still has some rationality at this point, so James turned to Murphy again with an interrogating posture, "One is your husband, the second generation of Toredo, and the other is the strange Assammet, the fifth generation of vampires. What changed so that you agreed to the offer to become a vampire. ”
"Life has changed. Murphy looked at James, still emotionless, "I'm in pain, more pain than Zachary is by my side." I hid back in my human parents' house because I couldn't stand the voices around me anymore. ”
"What a sound. ”
"Friends of the same class, servants, high-ranking people. A variety of sounds. Murphy turned and looked in the mirror at the image of James and Louise, "My mutual friend with Zachary and I, the human friend, said I ate my husband. I don't blame them, after all, I used to serve corpses to Zachary at banquets, and he would stain my rouge with blood. We are 'crazy' in the eyes of our friends. ”
Louise and James glanced at each other, neither of them commenting.
"The servants of the Moriati Manor, they know the truth, they talk about my stupidity behind my back, and I, I have rejected the chance of eternal life. Since Murphy has no image, we can't know what her expression is when she has her back to James and Louise, but based on all Murphy's previous behavior, it should be calm without a trace of waves, "Then the human beings who are higher in social class than me and Zachary, the core of this country, those who used to praise me for my beauty at our banquet and envy Zachary's blessings, have become disgusted with me after Zachary disappeared." ”
James was about to ask, but was pulled by Louise, "Don't ask." You know that Zach is in the Hidden Alliance to do things for the Alliance, and every identity Zach has ever been in order to complete a certain purpose of the Hidden Alliance, and it's all gone, you don't need to ask. ”
Murphy glanced sideways at Louise, "Well, you're right. Then he looked back, "My life was completely destroyed, and all the people or things I knew in my marriage to Zachary were far away from me, or, I wanted to get away from them, or I couldn't stand being human." ”
"That doesn't explain your sudden change of mind and want to be a vampire......" James said. But he was stopped by Louise.
Louise looked at James, "Actually, it can be explained. Glancing at Murphy's back, she explained to James, "Part of what she knew was the complete destruction of her life was because he rejected Zach's offer to live forever. Louise frowned, wanting to sigh, "The rational part." The other part, just despair, her life has been completely hopeless in that era. This is the emotional part. She ......," Louise shook her head, "it's the qualification standard for the twin clans, and she doesn't know how to continue to live because she is between emotion and reason." ”
James also frowned after hearing this, and after being silent for a while, he actually said something that was 'surprising', "You won't be sympathetic to her." "To Louise.
Louise gave James a roll of her eyes, "If I had to choose an emotion to face her, I'd rather choose this sympathy, uh." After speaking, he waved his hand.
James also pouted and looked back at Murphy, "So you gave up your life and gave yourself to the blood of the twin clans to choose a way of life for you." ”
Murphy also turned back and looked at James and Louise, "Yes. I'm done, do you have any other questions, Detective Lance. ”
"Zach attended your funeral, who was that old woman?" Louise asked. James glanced at Lois and shook his head speechlessly, which was really not something that the detective cared about.
"Stand-in. Murphy replied, "In human society, she is me." ”
"Stand-in?" Louise pressed James as he was about to interrupt, "You mean the old woman that Zach saw had spent the life of Murphy Moriati in your place?"
Murphy nodded.
James was ready to force his mouth to ask for something that really mattered, despite Louise's obstruction......
Louise covered James's mouth, glared at him in passing, and continued to look at Murphy, "This is a stand-in, is she like you?"
"7 points. Murphy replied, looking at Louise as well.
The atmosphere of this look is ...... It's a bit hard to describe.
"Who found this stand-in for you?" Louise continued to ask, "Don't say it's yourself, you just told us that the social status you ran with Zach was destroyed after Zack left, and you are a 'widow' of that era, without such resources and abilities. The hand covering James's mouth could be lowered, "Did the Twin Clans find it for you?"
Murphy was silent for a moment, "Yes. ”
"So this is a system, a system for the inheritance of the descendants of the twin clans, the same as the system of secrets, magic feasts, and the rotation of vampire identities, with detailed institutional regulations and supporting resources. Louise summed it up.
The first time Murphy had an expression was a crowd of eyebrows, and it was also the first time she hadn't directly responded to all the questions that were asked to her, "You're smart." ”
"Thank you. Louise became expressionless, ignoring James, who was already wide-eyed, "And this system must be independent of the Hidden Alliance, and the vampire is integrated into human life." Because if it weren't for the information you deliberately gave before, Asammet wouldn't be a foreign vampire, and everyone would still think you were a foreign vampire. ”
Murphy didn't speak.
Nalouise continued, "So the system is still running. It's just that it no longer serves the concealment of the identity of the descendants of the twin clans, but has become a system in the twin clans that hides only the identity of Asammet. ”
Murphy stood up and looked at Louise, "I believe my bodyguards have packed up my residence. ”
"You don't really think you're going to ...... off topic," James pushed back as Louise pushed back
"Let her go. Louise looked at Murphy, "She's just Asammet, huh, normal people." She wasn't very smart except for that pretty face, she refused to be Torredo, didn't she? She's just out of the emotions and a little more focused than the others, and it's only a matter of time before we can figure out the details of her. ”
"Sarcasm. Murphy glanced at Louise as he went out, "It's useless to me." ”
"I know," Louise smiled, "but it works for me I say it, I'm cool" and, "Oh you don't know what this cool is, you're Assammet, it's a shame"